Chester Hartman, Author at Shelterforce

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Chester Hartman was a contributing editor to Shelterforce, a founder of Planners Network and the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, and a prolific author and scholar on radical urban planning topics.

Occupy Wall Street: A New Wave of Fair Housing Activism?

Organize! Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires - March 24, 2014

Is there a new community reinvestment movement afoot?

The Case for a Right to Housing

Housing Chester Hartman - November 23, 2006

While the Constitution of the United States ensures citizens many rights, housing is not one of them—although such a right has been advocated for many years. Shelterforce asked Chester Hartman and Rachel G. Bratt (co-editors of A Right To Housing, with Michael E. Stone) to discuss this notion of a "right to housing." Hartman, answering a series of questions, puts it into the context of other rights Americans expect. Bratt explains how a right to housing can advance the work of CDCs.

Interview with Roberta Achtenberg, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

Interviews Chester Hartman - January 1, 1995

Roberta Achtenberg, former Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, came to Washington from San Francisco, where she had been an elected member...

exterior of HUD building in Washington, D.C.

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing

Policy Chester Hartman - September 1, 1994

Joseph Shuldiner Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing Prior to coming to HUD, Joseph Shuldiner was executive director of the Los Angeles Housing Authority (1990-93)...